SDO9860 - 'The Excavations of Burials at 43 Cornwall Road: An Interim Report' Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society

Wessex Archaeology agreed to complete the excavation and recording of burials at 43 Cornwall Road, Dorchester, started by the misses Hunt during the summer of 1986. A trench measuring 2.8m x 18m had been excavated to a depth of 0.5m revealing an extended adult inhumation oriented N-S. No grave cut or presence of a coffin could be identified. Another adult inhumation lay approximately 0.1m below the first. It appeared to lay on its left side, slightly flexed and oriented S-N, again no grave cut or coffin could be identified. These burials are probably part of the same cemetery excavated at 8 Albert Road.